Talk:Hamlet (1948 film)

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Fair use rationale for Image:Hamlet1metghost48.JPG

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Fair use rationale for Image:Hamletkill48.JPG

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Stanley Holloway as the gravedigger , , ,

He was cast as a gravedigger in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), probably as a nod to this film. WHPratt (talk) 17:45, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Helga Cranston

The editor of the film, Helga Cranston, later, Helga Keller, died on March 1st. Helga Keller, leading Israeli film editor and educator, dies, Hebrew wiki.Tushyk (talk) 20:33, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Tony Tarver as Player Queen

This article: "Tony Tarver as Player Queen. The Player Queen is the Player King's wife. In Olivier's film she is a satire of Gertrude, intended to catch the conscience of Claudius. Tarver seems to have made no other film appearances."

The article Characters_in_Hamlet says re The Player Queen: "This role was traditionally performed by a man, as were all the female parts in Hamlet, since women did not appear on stage in Elizabethan times."

Note that the name is given as "Tony" and not "Toni." Just as a point of interest, is it recorded whether the performer was male or female, as well as how the character in the play was supposed to be perceived? WHPratt (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@WHPratt: So far as I know, Tarver was a boy actor ala. the Elizabethan stage. According to Coursen (2010), at one point Hamlet puts a blonde wig on him and he's portrayed as looking just like Ophelia. How the character in the play was supposed to be perceived isn't, as far as I know, settled to any degree. That the Player Queen in the play-within-the-play is supposed to represent Gertrude is pretty obvious, but how specifically that is portrayed varies considerably from production to production. The point about the original play is simply that no women where allowed on stage in the 16th century so all female parts were performed by boy actors (interestingly, from the 18th century on several female actors made a name for themselves playing Prince Hamlet). --Xover (talk) 13:40, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! (Of course, some versions of Hamlet were set in a later time period (e.g., Richard Chamberlain's and Kenneth Branagh's), so that the occasional actress was not an anachronism.) WHPratt (talk) 14:17, 24 July 2018 (UTC)